Everything You Need to Know About the Queen Movie ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’

The Queen movie has taken a long and dramatic road to production. In the list below, you'll find out everything we know about it so far.

Alternately pegged as the band's story and a Freddie Mercury biopic, the film will document Queen's early years. But it's had numerous starts and stops to get to where it is now, with several writers, directors and actors joining the creative team, only to drop out for one reason or another.

Stephen J. Rivele and Christopher Wilkinson, who have penned scripts for biopics about Muhammad Ali and Richard Nixon, were originally hired to write the movie. Then Oscar-nominated writer Anthony McCarten (The Theory ofEverything) was said to be joining the project, but he was replaced by Revolutionary Road writer Justin Haythe.

“It’s actually happening," Brian Mayfinally announced in July 2017. "We’ve stayed with it for the last 12 years to shepherd it to the right place where we feel it would do Freddie justice. We only get one shot at this, and that’s it.”

Check out the following list to learn about how all the drama panned out, and what to expect from the movie when it finally reaches screens.

UPDATE 3/27: According to Variety, the release date for Bohemian Rhapsody, originally scheduled to be Dec. 25, 2018, has been pushed forward by Fox to Nov. 2.